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| “ | You're right where you belong, Fed. | „ |
| ~ Wilkins intimidating Spencer Reid. |
Lionel Wilkins is a supporting antagonist in season 12 of the CBS crime drama Criminal Minds. He is a corrupt corrections officer who is part of a drug smuggling ring run from inside the prison he works in, and is also an accomplice in Cat Adams and Lindsey Vaughn's vendetta against FBI Agent Spencer Reid.
He was portrayed by Richard T. Jones.
Overview[]
Wilkins works as a corrections officer at both Milburn Correctional Facility and Mount Pleasant Women's Correctional Facility, and he is part of a drug smuggling ring in the former prison. In the latter prison, he has a sexual relationship with one of the inmates, contract killer Cat Adams, who recruits him in her and her fellow assassin and lover Lindsey Vaughn's plan to frame Agent Spencer Reid of the FBI's Behavioral Analysis Unit (BAU), who put them both in prison, for murder. As part of the plan, Adams gets pregnant with Wilkins' child, planning to trick Reid into believing the child is his.
Biography[]
"Alpha Male"[]
After Adams and Vaughn frame Reid for the murder of Nadie Ramos, he is denied bail and incarcerated in Milburn pending his trial. Wilkins stops a pair of guards under his command from putting Reid in solitary confinement, and houses him instead in general population, where his life will be in danger once his fellow prisoners find out he is an FBI agent. Reid protests that there must be some mistake, but Wilkins sneers that Reid is right where he belongs, and that he will likely run into many criminals he personally sent to prison.
The next day, Wilkins stops an inmate from assaulting Reid, but he refuses to protect him from any future attacks, and even threatens to tell the other inmates that Reid is "a fed" if he bothers him again. Soon afterward, however, inmate Calvin Shaw - a high-ranking member of the drug smuggling ring, and, like Reid, a former FBI agent - takes Reid under his wing and pulls strings to get him transferred to a cell next to his, and orders Wilkins to move Reid there himself. As Wilkins slams the cell door, he tells Reid not to get "too comfortable".
"Assistance is Futile"[]
Wilkins takes Reid to the visitor's center, where his friend and BAU colleague Jennifer Jareau has come to see him. They try to hug each other, but Wilkins tells them that touching is prohibited. He then calls a premature end to visiting hours and tells Reid and the other inmates to line up to go back to their cells.
"Hell's Kitchen"[]
When someone makes an anonymous tip to the warden that cocaine has been found on the premises, Wilkins panics and tells Shaw, who immediately suspects Reid, with whom he has had a falling out. He does not tell Wilkins, however, and so Wilkins brings in the next shipment to Reid and another inmate named Malcolm to smuggle out. Unbeknownst to him, however, Reid has poisoned the cocaine, which sends Shaw and several of his cronies to the infirmary after they sample their own product.
"Green Light"[]
After Reid tricks Shaw into stabbing him in the leg, Wilkins takes Reid to solitary confinement and throws Shaw back into his cell, unknowingly aiding Reid in his plan to get somewhere safe from Shaw, who has threatened to kill him. He later takes Reid to the visitors center to see Jareau, who tells him that he has been exonerated and will be released.
"Red Light"[]
Wilkins helps Vaughn kidnap Reid's mother, Diana, as part of Adams' plan to torment him. After getting Vaughn and Diana out of the Washington, D.C. metro area, he takes them both to his cabin in the Appalachian wilderness. After he gets a bound and gagged Diana into the cabin, however, Vaughn decides he has outlived his usefulness and shoots him in the head, killing him. When Reid later reveals that Wilkins fathered Adams' child, however, Vaughn betrays Adams by refusing to detonate an explosive that they had planned to use to kill Reid's mother and his fellow BAU agents.
External links[]
- Lionel Wilkins on the Criminal Minds Wiki
